Philip Conine Jr to Leonard Bronck
Fort Schuyler 27th July 1777
Dear Leonard,
I have Recieved yours of the 9th July with the Agreeable NEws that you
bineg in good health, which Bessing I Now again do Enjoy But have Lately
been Very unwell We have Nothing New at this place We have
Expected the Enemy would have been here before this time by what accounts
we Reeived from the Indians I am this minute a going Dwon to Onida
Lake on a Scout and on our Return are to stop up the Passage of Wood
Creek. Capt. Bleeker Commands our Party which thus Consist of fifty
Continental Troops & Sixty malitia I hope No bad News Shall
be heard from this Quarter Our men are in high Spirits & dont
make any Doubt if the Enemy thus appear but what you shall hear the(y)
shall meet with a Drubbing This minute after beginning to write
an alarm happened hear by our working Party who fired on a Scout of
Indians but did not kill any The Indians Run of No more am in great
heast for the party waits for me
Be good Enough to give my Compliments to all our Ladies & Gentlemen
and My kind Love to your father & Mother
I am Sir Your Most Humble Sevt.
Philip Conine
NB. I do Expect to come down in about Seven weeks if nothing thus happen hear Extraordinary
published source: Beecher, Raymond (Ed.): Letters from a Revolution, 1775-1783: A Selection From the Bronck Family Ppaers At the Greene County Historical Society. The NYS American Revolution Bicentennial Commision; Albany (NY), 1973, pp. 18-19.